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University of Texas Bulletin 

No. 1831: June 1, 1918 



University Aid for Gommunity Councils of Defense 

By 



E. D. SHURTER 

Director of tlie Department of Extension 



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Published by the University six times a month and entered as 

second-class matter at the postoffice at 

AUSTIN, TEXAS 



Monograpli 



The benefits of education and of 
useful knowledge, generally diffused 
through a community, are essential 
to the preservation of a free gov- 
ernment. 

Sam Houston 



Cultivated inind is the guardian 
genius of democracy. ... It is the 
only dictator that freemen acknowl- 
edge and the only security that free- 
men desire. 

Mirabeau B. Lamar 



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UNIVEKSITY EXTENSION SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR 
COLOIUNITY COUNCILS OF DEFENSE 

FOREWORD 

Immediately after the United States declared war against 
Germany on April 6, 1917, the various departments of the Uni- 
versity, under the leadership of President R. E. Vinson, began 
formulating plans by which this institution could render the 
greatest possible service to our government in its military pro- 
gram. Various war activities were inaugurated and have been 
developed so that in certain respects the University of Texas is 
far in the lead among other educational institutions in the 
United States. The institution has furnished some 2500 stu- 
dents and ex-students and 40 members of its faculty for active 
military service. Military training for the young men still re- 
maining in the University has been established under the direc- 
tion of the United States War Department. The University 
is conducting for the War Department a Radio School, a school 
of Auto Mechanics, and a school of Military Aeronautics, one of 
the largest in the United States. 

In addition to the war activities at the University itself the 
various departments of the institution, and particularly the De- 
partment of Extension, have organized various lines of service 
for the people of the state, in many cases in connection with the 
State Council of Defense. But before specifying how the Uni- 
versity can assist Community Councils of Defense, let us con- 
sider what Community Councils are expected to do in helping 
to win the war. . C 

COMMUNITY COUNCILS: WHAT THEY ARE FOR 

We must bear in mind that we are engaged in a world war, 
the most stupendous and cruel and expensive, both in blood 
and treasure, of all the wars in history ; that it is a war of peo- 
ples and not alone of soldiers, just as it is a world conflict of 
ideals and systems. The Kaiser himself recently said that it is 



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a conflict between Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon civilizations. It 
is, therefore, our war; and this means every individual man, 
woman and child in America. This fact our National govern- 
ment has been insisting upon from the very first, and the sooner 
every American citizen realizes this truth, the sooner will 
America be able to turn the tide of battle in favor of the Al- 
lies. To realize this idea in practice as well as in theory, our 
government is now asking for the organization of Community 
Councils. 

A Community Council is an organization of all the people in 
a given neighborhood, the school district being usually taken as 
the unit of organization. In some counties where the schools 
are small and scattered, and where there is a trade center em- 
bracing such school districts, the community council may em- 
brace more than one school district. The community council 
is the last step in an official, nation-wide organization which our 
government has been developing — that reaches into the small 
communities to mobolize and make available the efforts of the 
whole people for the prosecution of the war. The first step was 
the organization of the Council of National Defense, composed 
of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Com- 
merce and Labor, aided by a civilian committee of seven. Then 
followed the organization of State Councils of Defense ap- 
pointed by the several governors; the Texas State Council con- 
sisting of 40 members, of which Judge 0. E. Dunlap of Waxa- 
hachie is chairman, and the Hon. J. F. Carl of San Antonio, 
secretary. The State Council of Defense then proceeded to or- 
ganize county councils, and finally the county councils have or- 
ganized, and are still organizing in Texas, the community coun- 
cils. Now it should be borne in mind that this four-fold organi- 
zation, each part with its particular duties to perform, is in 
point of fact a single organization established by our govern- 
ment for the purpose, as has been said, of organizing the efforts 
of the people as a whole in war service. The community coun- 
cil is by no means the least important unit in this organization, 
for this unit, as has been pointed out, supplies the bulbs for an 
electrical wiring system, the central station of which is located 
at Washington. The principal tasks that the people are asked 



University Aid for Community Councils of Defense 5 

to perform are assigned by the National Council of Defense. 
These requests are communicated to the State councils, and 
from the State councils to the county councils, and from the 
county councils to the community councils. Or to begin at the 
other end, the community council works in direct cooperation 
with the county council, the county with the state, and the state 
with the national council. 

The officers of community councils should therefore bear in 
mind that they are officers of our government, sanctioned by 
law, and they should not hesitate when occasion demands to let 
the people know that they are working under orders from 
Uncle Sam. The general purpose of all the councils — na- 
tional, state, county, and community — is to coordinate all the 
war activities of our country outside, of course, of such organ- 
izations as the Army and Navy, which have independent organ- 
ization and functions peculiarly their own. Now, our govern- 
ment is not so particular about the name of a local organiza- 
tion engaged in war service as it is in having the work done and 
having it done in the most economical and approved method. 

It is suggested that an old organization taking on the func- 
tions of a community council for defense should add the follow- 
ing words to its name: "and council of defense." For in- 
stance, suppose the Jonesville community is already organized 
under the name of "Jonesville Community Center" and takes 
on defense activities, it should not give up its old name, but 
simply call itself "Jonesville Community Center and Council 
of Defense." There has been during this war in many cases, 
no doubt, too much organization, as when there are two or three 
organizations doing practically the same work. This should be 
avoided, and the community council, while not necessarily in- 
sisting that it should initiate and direct every form of war ser- 
vice, should at the same time see that there is no duplication in 
organization and effort, and that the people in a community are 
not working at cross purposes. Wherever there is an organiza- 
tion already in your community doing satisfactorily a partic- 
ular piece of work, even though such organization, such as the 
Red Cross, for example, is entirely separate from the com- 
munity council, the council should not disturb such organiza- 



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tion but should cooperate ^vith it in every way possible. Again, 
while the work of a council should conform to the plans of the 
national, state, and county organizations, and should place 
first on the program such work as is requested through the 
councils higher up, each community council should not hesitate 
to initiate independent work for the purpose of meeting its own 
war needs and of making all its own resources available to the 
nation. In this connection the National Council of Defense 
says : ' ' The work should conform to the plans of the national, 
state and county organizations, but each community council 
should feel the duty of bearing its full share of the burden of 
war, and observe the principle that in a Democracy, local emer- 
gencies can best be met by local action." 

Let us now see a little more specifically — folloAving pretty 
closely the instructions issued by the Council of National De- 
fense — just what a connnunity council is supposed to do. 

GENERAL PEOGRAM FOR COMMUNITY COUNCIL WORK 

I. Community Meetings and Rallies. — The community 
council through its Chairman or Executive Secretary should 
hold frequent genera] community meetings for hearing reports 
from committees, organizations, and individuals who are doing 
war work, and for the discussion of community war problems. 
Such meetings should not be held too freciuently but frequently 
enough to keep things moving. In rural communities a good 
time for such meetings is Sunday afternoon every week or every 
two weeks, say, as conditions demand. It should be remem- 
bered that this governmental service is fundamentally religious 
work, and therefore no one can properly object to holding these 
meetings on the Sabbath. 

II. Education in Patriotism.— Ouv people need continual in- 
struction in Avhat this war means for America. The community 
council should aid in such instruction (a) by distributing edu- 
cational and patriotic material supplied by the National Com- 
mittee on Information through the State Council of Defense, 
(b) by holding council war rallies addressed by the ablest speak- 
ers available, and (c) seeing that required instruction in patri- 
otism is given in the schools. 



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III. Reports. — The Executive Secretary or Chairman of 
each community council should make reports from time to time, 
and particularly whenever such repo^'ts are called for by the 
state or county council, relative to conditions, resources, and 
needs of a particular community. 

IV. Food. — Assist the county council and the local Food 
Administrator in carrying out the national Agricultural and 
Food Conservation program. The Council of Defense should 
see that its community is made as nearly as possible self-sup- 
porting as to food, that food waste is eliminated and consump- 
tion cut down of the articles specified by the government, and 
particularly to educate the people in the habit of economy in the 
home. 

V. Community Safeguards. — The community council should 
undertake the protection of its own district in the way of fire 
protection, particularly in providing proper protection for 
goods and crops in storage, including the inspection of all places 
subject to spontaneous combustion to see that they are as nearly 
fire-proof as possible. Protection should also be provided 
against violence through disloyal elements and local guards pro- 
vided, if necessary. The community council should also assist 
the local chapter of the American Eed Cross in its home service 
work for the families of men in military service. It should also 
safeguard local health conditions by working in cooperation with 
the Eed Cross in distributing the pamphlets and other literature 
from the State and National health departments, and enlisting 
the assistance of the school children through the Junior Red 
Cross. 

VI. Labor and Industry. — See that the boys in your com- 
munity are' educated so that they may be effective in helping 
on the farms in the summer, and that the girls likewise are en- 
listed in doing such work in canning, etc., as they are qualified 
to do. See also that the government's motto, "Work or Fight," 
is observed in your community, and thus help on the campaign 
against idleness. 

VII. Community Thrift. — In addition to urging economy in 
food consumption, community councils should cooperate with 
the local fuel Administrator injjie conserving of fuel, assist in 



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relieving railroad congestion by issuing commission cooperative 
orders for goods, and urge merchants to purchase goods in the 
nearest market. 

VIII. Community Subscriptions. — The community council 
should provide special means for soliciting subscriptions to Lib- 
erty Loans, War Savings Stamps, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and 
other organizations endorsed by the State council. In this con- 
nection, efforts should be made to prevent solicitation of funds 
in the community by any organization not approved by the 
State council. 

IX. Soldiers' Aid Work. — Each community should make 
sure that all drafted, enlisted, or commissioned men from that 
community receive frequent mail — ^letters, papers, magazines, 
etc. — from home. Assist the local exemption boards in their 
arduous work. In cooperation with the Red Cross, provide ade- 
quate business, legal, and medical advice for aid to soldiers and 
their families. 

X. Coordination. — As previously indicated, the community 
council, in accordance with the instructions of the Council of Na- 
tional Defense, should consider itself a coordinating agent and a 
clearing house for the work of the churches, schools, fraternal 
societies, clubs, and individuals in the community. There 
should be no duplication or replacement of the work of exist- 
ing organizations, but the effort should be to make this work 
run smoothly and efficiently. If there is an existing organiza- 
tion which is already doing satisfactory work along a particular 
line, it is the duty of the community council to strengthen and 
work through such organization, not to replace it. For instance, 
if there be some organization purely social in its nature in a 
given community, but working through any of its commmittees 
in war work, these committees should coordinate their work with 
the community council without, of course, at all interfering with 
the purely social character of the organization. 

XI. Execution of Various Bequests Issued hy tJie National, 
State, and County Councils of Defense. — Remember that the 
work expressly requested by the government has first claim upon 
the attention of the community council. The keynote of suc- 
cess in our required popular war service is promptness and ac- 
curacy on the part of communities in carrying out the requests 
that are issued through the state council from Washington. 



University Aid for Community Councils of Defense 9 

WAYS IN WHICH THE UNIVERSITY* EXTENSION DEPARTMENT CAN 
SERVE COMMUNITY COUNCILS 

Following are some of the war service agencies conducted 
under the auspices of the University of Texas Department of 
Extension, which are placed at the service of Texas community 
councils : 

1. Public Lectures. During the time we have been at 
war lecturers have been sent to more than twenty coun- 
ties requesting their assistance. These lecturers have conducted 
campaigns varying in duration from two days to one week to 
the county, sometimes delivering as many as fifteen public ad- 
dresses in a week at places where their services were most 
needed. Most of these addresses have been on the subjects of 
Patriotism, Food Production and Conservation, Why We Are 
At War and What We Are Fighting For, Red Cross, Liberty 
Loans, and War Savings Stamps. During the ensuing year 
lecturers will be available to those counties, communities, and 
organizations that -will pay their expenses while they are thus 
engaged. 

In addition to the lectures from the regular Extension staff, 
members of the instructing staff of the University have deliv- 
ered quite a number of public addresses on various war topics 
the past year. This will be continued where the traveling ex- 
penses of the lecturers are borne by the conununities where the 
public addresses are given, and when satisfactory arrangements 
can be made for a day's absence from the University. Lectures 
and addresses by members of the instruoting staff can best be 
arranged at the week end. 

2. War Service Lantern Slides. The Department of Ex- 
tension of the University has been made the depository for vis- 
ual instruction material by the Publicity Committee of the 
Texas State Council of Defense. The Council of Defense has 
placed with the Department of Extension a number of stereop- 
ticons and several thousand slides for distribution throughout 
the State. This equipment is being furnished free to schools 
and others interested on condition that the borrower pay the 
express charges to and from Austin. 



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The stereoptieons are equipped not only for electricity but 
also for acetylene gas and can be connected with an automobile 
or motorcycle prest-o-lite gas tank and used in any rural school 
or church. The Department cannot furnish the gas tank. These 
can usually be secured from any garage. Schools are urged to 
buy their stereoptieons, as express charges will soon amount to 
the cost of a good lantern. 

The lantern slides deal with all phases of war activity both in 
this country and in Europe. The pictures depict scenes in the 
trenches; they show conditions in France and Belgium; and 
also conditions in America, especially those having to do with 
the development of our great American army. These slides 
were prepared by the government at Washington, and are offi- 
cial and authentic. 

These war slides are especially recommended for regular 
school work, and for school, club and church entertainments, 
and for community council patriotic programs. Each set com- 
prises about fifty slides and is accompanied by a brief lecture or 
descriptive material. 

In using the regular slide service, and especially in using the 
war slides, community councils are urged to form circuits of 
neighboring communities, so that the slides may reach as many 
people as possible before being returned to the University. 

In addition to the above, there are now. in course of prepara- 
tion by members of the University faculty more than forty il- 
lustrated lectures dealing with subjects relating to the war. 
These subjects will embrace such fields as history, science, edu- 
cation, English, art, sociology, and government. This material 
will be valuable for school room use and for evening entertain- 
ments in schools and churches. Many ministers are frequently 
using this type of material for the Sunday night service. This 
material, which is being prepared at the request of the Univer- 
sity Commission on War Activities cooperating with the Texas 
State Council of Defense, will be available September 1st, 1918. 
A list of subjects will be announced later. 

Following is a list of war slides ncMv available : 



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Set 
Number 

61. Destruction of Famous Cathedrals and Churches by 

Germans, 50 plain slides. 

62. Aviation, 50 plain slides. 

63. The Big Guns, 50 plain slides. 

64. In the Trenches, 50 plain slides. 

65. With Pershing in France. 

66. Y. M. C. A. Work in the Camps. 

67. Our Boys in Training. 

68. For the Freedom of the Seas — Our Navy. 

69. Belgium — The Downtrodden. 

70. French Soldiers. 

71. Germany's Dream of World Empire. 

72. Destroyed Architecture in the War Zone. 

73. German Atrocity. 

74. Duties and Obligations of Civilians. 

75. Making the American Army. 

76. Our Boys in France. 

76. Our Boys in France. 

77. Building a Bridge of Ships to Pershing. 

78. War Cartoons. 

Others to be announced soon. 

Food Production and Conservation: 

46. Food Conservation, 37 plain slides. 

47. Save Food for the Allies, 40 plain slides. 

48. Food for Our Soldier Boys, 40 plain slides. 

49. Texas Food Products, 50 plain slides. 

50. Texas War Breads, 50 plain slides. 

51. Women's Part in Winning the War, 50 plain slides. 

In connection with the lantern slide service the Extension De- 
payment, cooperating with the Texas State Council of Defense, 
is planning the development of a series of stereographs for use 
among children and especially designed for rural and village 
schools that cannot secure a stereopticon. Sets of 15 stereo- 
graphs each will be sent teachers or Junior Red Cross leaders 



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upon application. These pictures will show scenes of war ac- 
tivities and can be used to splendid advantage in teaching pat- 
riotism and facts concerning the war. 

3. Package Libraries. The Extension Loan Library has 
about 100 packages containing material on various war sub- 
jects, such as, The Causes of the War, Aereonautics, Atrocities 
of the War, American Participation in the War, Civilian War 
Service, Effects of the War, Food Conservation, League to En- 
force Peace, War Finance, Red Cross, Thrift, etc. These 
"package libraries" will be loaned for two weeks to any citizen 
of Texas, the only charge being the payment of postage both 
ways (about 7 cents). A complete list of subjects will be fur- 
nished free upon application. 

4. Food Conservation. The Division of Hlome Welfare 
has been engaged in war activities continuously since our 
country entered the war. The nature of these activities deals 
with emergency courses in foods, experimental food work, 
lectures, and demonstrations. Much experimental laboratory 
work on Texas food substitutes and preservative methods has 
been conducted. Bulletins on nutrition, balanced menus, food 
conservation and substitute cookery have been issued and widely 
circulated. 

The following bulletins are now available and may be had 
free on application to the Bulletin Clerk, University, Austin : 
Number 

306 Simple Cooking of Wholesome Food for the 
Farm House. 
Cleanliness and Health. 
The Uses of Foods and the Proper Balancing 

of the Diet. 
Nuts and Their Uses as Foods. 
Care and Preservation of Food in the Home. 
A Simple Course in Home Economics for Rural 
Schools, with Suggestions for the School 
Noon Lunch. 
Pure Milk and How to Get It. 
The Principles of Menu Making. 
Uses of the Peanut on the Home Table. 





341 




345 




366 


1916: 


No. 48 


1916: 


No. 49 




1711 




1716 




1720 



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1727 Cotton Seed Flour as a Human Food. 

1756 Food Conservation to Help Win the War. 

1804 Food for Infants and Growing Children. 
5. Recreation and Entertainment. In all community 
meetings a proper amount of recreation and entertainment 
should always be included. Variety, rest and diversion prop- 
erly interspersed are the best guarantees of success in any hu- 
man undertaking. The country is engaged in a serious business 
at this time — indeed a tragic undertaking — and we therefore all 
the more need to grip ourselves and not yield to melancholy and 
worry. Optimism and cheer are among our strongest allies in 
this time of national peril. It worries the Kaiser's men on 
the Western Front because our boys can dig in and smile and 
fight at the same time. 

Realizing these things, the University Department of Exten- 
sion is aiming to assist schools and school communities by pro- 
viding helpful and healthful recreation and entertainment. 
Every community program should include at least two or three 
good songs which the people as a whole can join in singing. A 
few such songs for patriotic meetings are included in this bul- 
letin. We hope to have printed by next fall a community song 
book which will be furnished at a nominal price. 

Community councils can also secure assistance in carrying 
out their programs from the State organization of schools known 
as the University Interscholastic League. Some 3000 schools in 
Texas will doubtless belong to the organization next year. The 
schools in the League hold local, county, district, and state con- 
tests in debating, declamation, spelling, essay writing, and ath- 
letics. Last year more than 50,000 students in the schools all 
over Texas participated in some form of athletic contests under 
the auspices of this League. According to President Wilson 
this is one of the best means of training the boys in our schools 
for our army of future defense. Communities should en- 
list the assistance of the teachers in their district and have some 
form of athletic and industrial contests at stated periods. These 
might well be held in connection with a school and community 
fair. The bulletins listed below, "Programs for Schoolhouse 
Meetings," and "How to Organize a School and Community 
Fair," will be found helpful in this connection. 



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Another way in which the University Interscholastic League 
can assist community councils is in the delivery by school pupils 
of one or more patriotic selections as part of a public program. 
All the League's declamation contests this year will be of a 
patriotic nature, and the contestants in the various schools will 
welcome the opportunity to participate in prograrns arranged 
by the community council. Interscholastic Leaguers could also 
stage a debate on the program, the subject this year being that 
of Universal Military Training. 

There is at this time a greater need than ever before for 
wholesome social recreation .and community centers where peo- 
ple may come together just for the sake of being together. Reg- 
ularly constituted community meetings providing means for 
social intercourse, wholesome pastime, and public discussion 
should have more encouragement than they have received in the 
past. To this end the University will continue providing 
special-day and patriotic programs and other literature for use 
in community meetings. 

The following bulletins are now available and may be had 
free on application : 
1915: No. 35 School Literary Societies (contains a list of 

questions for debate.) 
1916 : No. 56 Programs for Schoolhouse Meetings. 
1916 : No. 62 Universal Military Training : Bibliography and 

Selected Arguments. 
1916 : No. 72 A Play for San Jacinto Night. 

No. 1769 How to Organize a School and Community Fair. 
No. 1828 Texas History Teachers' Bulletin (contains a 

syllabus on the War.) 
No. 1830 Constitution and Rules of the University Inter- 
scholastic League. 
6. Advice on Community Organization. While the Exten- 
sion Department cannot undertake to furnish a community or- 
ganizer to visit and personally direct the organization of the 
community, it does undertake to give advice upon being 
furnished with an accurate statement of existing condi- 



University Aid for Community Councils of Defense 15 

tions in a community which is seeking to organize itself 
for effective war service. Numerous problems arise in 
connection with community organization, varying with condi- 
tions in different communities. For instance, one of the first 
problems to be met in the coordination of the work of the com- 
munity council for defense with existing organizations. Unless 
this is properly done, the effort at organization is foredoomed 
to failure. How to proceed with the preliminary work often 
constitutes a problem peculiar to a given community. Those 
undertaking the organization may often profit by advice con- 
cerning the "setting up" of the original meeting at which the 
organization is to be perfected, and so on. In many of these 
matters, the Extension Department is in a position to help va- 
rious communities, and this help will be freely and gladly given 
whenever application is made for it. 

7. Correspondence Courses. * The division of Extensiom 
Teaching offers group-study courses which community councils 
in many parts of the state are finding of great value. A full 
announcement of the various subjects treated in this way may 
be obtained by addressing the Extension Department, Austin, 
Texas. There is one group study course which is of particular 
interest to con'imunity councils, and that is a course upon the 
present war, going thoroughly into its causes and giving the stu- 
dent a connected account of just how this great world catas- 
trophe developed. This course takes as its basis the bulletin, 
illustrated by various maps, entitled "A War Textbook for 
Texas Teachers." A syllabus for the study of the war accom- 
panies the text-book, and a group-study library giving various 
important books and pamphlets upon the subject is furnished 
with the course. As in the case in other group-study courses, a 
lecturer who is an authority on the subject studied may be ar- 
ranged for or not, as the group taking the work desires. 



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WAR SONGS 

Following are a few songs of which the airs are familiar that 
may be used in patriotic programs. Extra copies of these songs 
in a separate pamphlet will be mailed for Community Council 
meetings free upon application to the University Extension De- 
partment, Austin. 

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 



Oh! say, can you see by the dawn's early light, 
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight. 
O'er the rampants we watched, were so gallantly streaming? 
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air. 
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. 
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? 

II 

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep. 
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, 
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, 
As it fitfully blows, haif concealed, half discloses? 
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam 
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream; 
'Tis the star-spangled banner: Oh long may it wave 
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 

Ill 

Oh! thus be it ever when free men shall stand, 
Between their loved homes and wild war's desolation; 
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven rescued land 
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. 
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
And this is our motto, ' ' In God is our trust ! ' ' 
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave 
'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 



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AMERICA 

(My Country 'Tis of TJiee) 

1. My country, 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 
Of thee I sing ; 

Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the Pilgrim's pride, 
From every mountain side 
Let freedom ring. 

2. Let music swell the breeze, 
And ring from all the trees, 
Sweet freedom's song; 

Let mortal tongues awake, 
Let all that breathe partake, 
Let rocks their silence break. 
The sound prolong. 



Our fathers' God, to Thee, 

Author of liberty, 

To Thee we sing; 

Long may our land be bright. 

With freedom's holy light, 

Protect us by Try might. 

Great God our King. 

God bless our splendid men 
Bring them safe home again, 

God bless our men. 
Keep them victorious, 
Patient and chivalrous, 
They are so dear to us, 

God bless our men. 



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BATTLE HYMN OF THE EEPUBLIC 



Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ; 

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are 

stored ; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, 
His truth is marching on. 

Chorus : — 

Glory! glory! Hallelujah! 
Glory! glory! Hallelujah! 
Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! 
His truth is marching on. 

II 

I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps ; 
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps ; 
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, 
His day is marching on. 

Ill 

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnish 'd rows of steel: 
'*As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall 

deal; 
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel, 
Since God is marching on." 

IV 

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; 
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! 
Our God is marching on. 

V 

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea; 
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; 
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 
While God is marching on. 



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HYMN OF FREEDOM 

By Mary Perry King 

(Tune, ''Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus.") 

1. Unfurl the flag of Freedom, 

Fling far the bugle blast ! 
There comes a sound of marching 

From out the mighty past. 
Let every peak and valley 

Take up the valieant cry: 
AVhere, beautiful as morning, 

Our banner cuts the sky. 

2. Free-born to peace and justice, 

We stand to guard and save 
The liberty of manhood, 

The faith our fathers gave. 
Then soar aloft, OLD GLORY, 

And tell the waiting breeze 
No law but right and mercy 

Shall rule the Seven Seas. 

3. No hate is in our anger, 

No vengeance in our wrath ; 
We hold the line of freedom 

Across the tyrant's path. 
Where'er oppression vaunteth 

We loose the sword once more. 
To stay the feet of conquest. 

And pray an end of war. 



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COLUMBIA, THE GEM OF THE OCEAN 

1. Columbia, the gem of the ocean, 
The home of the brave and the free, 
The shrine of each patriot's devotion, 
A world offers homage to thee. 

Thy mandates makes heroes assemble, 
"When Liberty's form stands in view; 
Thy banners make tyranny tremble. 
When borne by the Red, White, and Blue. 

Chorus : — 

When home by the Red, White and Blue. 
AVhen borne by the Red, White and Blue. 
Thy banners make tyranny tremble, 
When borne by the Red, White and Blue. 

2. When war winged its wild desolation, 
And threatened the land to deform, 
The ark then of freedom's foundation, 
Columbia, rode safe through the storm; 
With her garlands of victory around her. 
When so produly she bore her brave crew, 
With her flag proudly floating before her, 
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue. 

Chorus : — 

Three cheers for the Red, Wliite, and Blue, 
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue, 
With her flag proudly floating before her. 
Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue. 

3. "Old Glory" to greet, now come hither. 
With eyes full of love to the brim; 

May the wreaths of our heroes ne'er wither, 

Nor a star of our banner grow dim ; 

May the service united ne'er sever; 

But they to our colors prove true ! 

The Army and Navy forever, 

Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue. 



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Chorus : — 

Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue, 
Three cheers for the Red, White, and Blue, 
The Army and Navy forever, 
Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue. 



THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM 

1. Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys. 
We'll rally once again. 

Shouting the battle cry of freedom ! 
We will rally from the hillside, 
We'll rally from the plain, 
Shouting the battle cry of freedom! 

Chorus : — 

The Union forever. 

Hurrah, boys, hurrah ! 

Down with the traitor and up with the stars! 

While we rally round the flag, boys. 

Rally once again. 

Shouting the battle cry of freedom. 

2. We are springing to the call of 
Our brothers gone before, 
Shouting the battle cry of freedom ! 
And we'll fill the vacant ranks with 
A million freeman more, 
Shouting the battle cry of freedom! 



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OVER THERE 

Johnnie, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, 

Take it on the run, on the run, on the run; 

Hear them calling you and me 

Every son of liberty. 

Hurry right away, no delay, go today, 

Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, 

Tell your sweetheart not to pine — 
To be proud her boy's in line. 

Chorus : — 

Over there, over there, 

Send the word, send the word over there, 

That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, 

The drums rum-tumming every where. 

So prepare, breathe a prayer. 

Send the word, send the word over there, 

We'll be over, we're coming over, 

And we won't come back till it's over over there. 

Johnnie, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, 
Johnnie, show the Hun you're a son-of-a-gun, 
Hoist the flag and let her fly, 
Like true heroes do or die. 

Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit, 
Soldiers to the ranks from the towns and the tanks, 
Make your mothers proud of you. 
And to liberty be true. 



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KEEP THE HOME-FIRES BURNING 

They were summoned from the hillside; 

They were called in from the glen, 

And the Country found them ready 

At the stirring call for men. 

Let no tears add to their hardship, 

As the soldiers pass along, 

And although your heart is breaking 

Make it sing this cheery song-. 

Chorus : — 

Keep the Home-fires burning, 
While your hearts are yearning, 
Though your lads are far away 
They dream of home. 
There's a silver lining 
Through the dark cloud shining, 
Turn the dark cloud inside out. 
Till the boys come Home. 

Over seas there came a pleading, 
"Help a Nation in distress!" 
And we gave our glorious laddies — 
Honour bade us do no less. 
For no gallant Son of Freedom 
To a tyrant's yoke should bend, 
And a noble heart must answer 
To the sacred call of "Friend." 



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CANNING THE KAISER 

By Upton Sinclair 

(Tune, ''Marching ThrougJi Georgia.") 

I 

Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song, 
Sing it with a spirit that will move the world along, 
Sing it as we need to sing it, half a million strong — 
While we are canning the Kaiser. 

Chorus : — 

Oh, Bill! Oh, Bill! We're on the job today! 
Oh, Bill! Oh, Bill! We'll seal you so tight you'll stay! 
We'll put you up with ginger in the good old Yankee way- 
While we are canning the Kaiser. 

II 

Hear the song we're singing on the shining roads of France; 
Hear the Tommies cheering, and we see the Poilus prance; 
Africanders and Kanueks and Scots Avithout their pants — 
While we are canning the Kaiser, 

III 

Bring the guns from Bethlehem, by way of old New York ; 
Bring the beans from Boston, and don't leave out the pork; 
Bring a load of soda pop, and pull the grape juice cork — 
While we are canning the Kaiser. 

IV 

Come you men from Dixieland, you lumber jacks of Maine ; 
Come you Texas cowboys, and you farmers of the plain; 
From Florida to Oregon, we boast the Yankee strain — 
While we are canning the Kaiser. 

V 

Now we've started on the job, we mean to put it through; 
Ship the kings and kaisers all, and make the Avorld anew; 
Clear the way for coinmon folk, for men like me and you — 
While we are canning the Kaiser. 



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SMILE, SMILE, SMILE 

. Private Perks is a funny little codger 
With a smile, a funny smile ; 
Five feet none, he's an artful little dodger 
"With a smile, a funny smile. 
Flush or broke, he'll have his little joke, • 
He can't be suppressed. 
All the other fellows have to grin 
"When he gets this off his chest, [shout] Hi ! 

Chorus : — 

"Pack up your troubles 
In your old kit bag 
And smile, smile, smile; 
While you've a lueifer 
To light your fag, 
Smile, boys, that's the style; 
What's the use of worrying? 
It never was worth while; 
So pack up your troubles 
In your old kit bag 
And smile, smile, smile." 

, Private Perks went a-marching 
Into Flanders with his smile. 
He was loved by the privates and commanders, 
For his smile, his funny smile. 
When a throng of Boches came along 
With a mighty swing. 
Perks yelled out 
''This little bunch is mine, 
Keep your head down, boy, and sing," [shout] Hi! 



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The following may well be chanted in chorus: 

PLEDGE TO THE FLAG 

I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the 

Republic for which it stands. 
One nation indivisible, with liberty and 

justice for all. 

THE AMERICAN CREED 
W. T. Page 

[Note — This creed, slightly abridged, won the $1000 prize offered 
by the city of Baltimore.] 

I believe in the United States of America as a government of 
the people, by the people, for the people ; whose just powers are 
derived from the consent of the governed; established upon those 
principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which 
American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. 

I therefore believe it is my duty to love it ; to support its con- 
stitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it 
against all enemies, for 

T AM AN AMERICAN ! 



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